Residencies: Two-month residency partially funded by the
N.E.A., at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York (2006). Constructed ten,
four-foot tall steel armatures based on the “banana people” from the
OmiGosh Series.

Professional Affiliations: Co-founder of the cactus bra Space, which was the longest running alternative space for emerging artists in San Antonio.
(1993-2013)

Brief Exhibition History: Works included in the
following exhibitions: International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ;
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM; Laredo Center for the
Arts, TX; Art Museum of South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX;
Art Alliance Center at Clearlake, TX; McNay Art Museum and Southwest
School of Arts and Craft, San Antonio, TX; Mass Gallery, Austin, TX.

The University of Dallas’ Haggerty Gallery is pleased to
present The Body Politic, an exhibit
of drawings by Vesna Jovanovic, and the drawings and sculpture of Jayne
Lawrence.

Working from the common thread of metaphors that
characterize human nature, both behavioral and biological, these two artists
confront us with the entangled hybrid forms of their creations. Each sees the contradiction of the
beautiful and the monstrous in our attempts to conceptualize and explain our
nature and actions.